{"id":10152,"date":"2022-02-01T10:29:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T18:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/?p=10152"},"modified":"2023-08-07T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T17:41:13","slug":"american-camp-mural-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2022\/02\/american-camp-mural-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"American Camp mural progress report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One man with a brush! One brush stroke at a time! (these blow up in your browser to see details)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Personally, I think there must be an easier way to pass the time in my 70’s, but here I am none-the-less – cranking away on a super-complex wall mural in my studio.  I’d  have to say this project sure is fun and a real challenge, and keeps my brain about as sharp as it can be.  I’m just glad I took physics and higher math in high school.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is being painted half-size for a 35′-wide x 17′ tall wall in the new visitor center at the San Juan Island National Historical Park near Friday Harbor, Washington. Same project, I  finished the first one, a big prairie ecosystem painting. This is a bigger thing by far. This is the entire side wall of the building, and has all sorts of stuff complicating things, wall plugs, fire alarms, a door, a reader rail with tribal artifacts – makes me dizzy just trying to work it out.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This scene shows the summer gathering on the prairies at South Beach and Salmon Banks in the San Juan Islands, where many tribes would gather in late summer to fish and dry salmon, dig and roast camas bulbs and lay in winter stores.  The buildings were temporary. This went on for thousands of years and so the painting is set in a pre-iron, pre colonization time, maybe 500 years ago. So far, Nancy has been the model for almost all the people. I think there are about 30 of them. Some facial features I found online in the Curtis photo library, some I took from modern tribal gathering photos but just slimmed everyone down. This was also pre-refined sugar and wheat times.<\/p>\n\n\n

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So how is this installed? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll do the sky as a separate painting using a car paint sprayer, scan and photograph all of it, piece it together into on giant digital file. Then Capitol Museum Services in Manassas, Virginia will put it on vinyl and up it goes (thankfully, I don’t have to do that part).  I’m just the guy with the paintbrush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More soon. Stay tuned. Feel free to pass this around. People seem to like seeing my process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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